ProView - The Essentials
This purpose of this session is to demonstrate the essential research skills required to search, browse and retrieve content on ProView
This purpose of this session is to demonstrate the essential research skills required to search, browse and retrieve content on ProView
This session outlines the steps to conduct legal research on Westlaw Classic
This webinar will introduce and explain how to work with Terms & Connectors effectively to research legal content on Westlaw Asia (new)
This session outlines the steps to conduct legal research for Malaysia content using Westlaw Asia (new)
This webinar will introduce and explain how to work with Terms & Connectors effectively to research legal content on Westlaw Asia (new)
This session introduces the content and functionality available in Westlaw Asia (new) essential to getting started with your research.
This video demonstrates how to search and browse Malaysia commentary titles on Westlaw Asia (new).
This video demonstrates how to research United Kingdom legislation on Westlaw Asia (new).
FirstPoint is a case law research tool that integrates content from a number of Thomson Reuters leading case law research products, such as the Australian Digest and Australian Case Citator. You can use FirstPoint to:
FirstPoint is built from the citator information (litigation history and cases considered) contained in the Australian Case Citator, and case summaries from the Australian Digest and the ALMD.
The coverage of these products (and hence of FirstPoint) is as follows:
Australian Case Citator – Citator information for Australian reported cases starting from 1825.
Coverage of Australian unreported cases starts from September 1999.
Australian Digest and ALMD – Classifications and case summaries for significant Australian reported cases starting from 1825. Classifications for unreported Australian judgments from September 1999 onwards, with summaries for key unreported judgments from September 1999 also.
FirstPoint is updated each working day with citator information derived from the latest case law and new summaries from key cases.
FirstPoint contains links to full text law reports and unreported judgments, as well as full text law reports in PDF format. Please note that separate subscriptions are required to access this content.
FirstPoint allows the researcher to search under the following categories:
Party Names | This field searches the title and full list of party names in the case. |
Citation | Use this field to search for a case by year, volume, series and page number, e.g., 175 CLR 1. |
Subject | This field searches for content by legal classification. For example, you can search for cases about penalties for environmental offences by typing “penalties” into the search box and specifying that the search be confined to the “Environment and planning” classification. |
Legislation Title Legislation Provision Number |
Use these fields to find cases that judicially consider a section of an Act. |
Cases Cited (Party) Cases Cited (Citation) |
These fields allow you to narrow your search down to cases which have cited or referred to other cases by the party names or citation. |
Court | Use this field to search by court, e.g. Supreme Court of Victoria. |
Judge | Use this field to limit a search to cases heard by a particular judge/s surname, e.g., Kirby. |
Year | This field narrows the search down to cases heard in a particular year or range of years. |